Improvisation
This book explores improvisation—a creative process where shared practices meet spontaneity. The studies within contend that artistic improvisation holds the key to understanding the improvisation that pervades our professions and everyday experiences.
This is the first formal account of the clause structure and lexical affixation of Coeur d’Alene, a polysynthetic Salish language. Drawing on Gladys Reichard’s archives and the Coeur d’Alene Language Program, it aids language preservation.
Multilingual Europe
This volume explores the relationship between language and identity in an expanding, multicultural Europe. Transcending disciplinary boundaries, it combines sociolinguistic research with chapters on cultural identity and language in contemporary European cinema.
Irelands of the Mind
This compelling series of essays explores changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Its prevailing theme is the complicated sense of belonging in modern Irish culture, giving questions of national identity a new treatment.
Hunting the Collectors
This volume investigates Pacific collections in Australian museums and the diverse 19th- and 20th-century collectors responsible. Essays reveal the motivations that led to the preservation of a remarkable archive of Pacific Island art, objects, and documents.
Across Boundaries
This book showcases research into translation and translation teaching in contexts across the globe. Contributors from twelve countries and a variety of disciplines offer a genuinely international, multidisciplinary view of contemporary translation studies.
Professional Ethics
This book addresses the ethical dimension of professional development. With contributors from a variety of fields, it explores inter-professional ways of working and developing an ethical response to changing contexts. Useful for practitioners, managers, and scholars.
Themata Politica
These political essays focus on Greek/Turkish relations, Cyprus, and the war on terror. Written by a philosopher of Hellenic ancestry, they are characterized by frank talk, fresh ideas, and historical insights that try to discern the future.
Artistic Ambivalence in Clay
Glimpse into the lives of fifteen prominent women in contemporary ceramics. Spanning generations and geographies, they describe tensions in their art and careers, analyzing the persistence of sexism while celebrating their often neglected perspectives.
Few studies have analyzed anti-social behaviour in Northern Ireland. This book fills that gap, considering the Troubles, the role of paramilitary groups, and the impact of the political settlement to offer insight into how to respond to the problem.
Violent Depictions
In a world that accepts violence as a just enterprise, what is violence? Is it justifiable? Violent Depictions addresses these questions, exploring the relationship between violence and representation in films, literature, and history.
Categories, and What Is Beyond (Volume 2
Drawing on late antiquity and the middle ages, these essays study what types of things exist, the accuracy of our knowledge, the semantics of analogy, and how these considerations bear on our ability to learn and speak of God.
Earlier descriptions of Japanese pitch accent had unclear perceptual bearing. This book uses production and perception experiments to show some acoustic properties are not used by listeners in word identification, underscoring the need to study both.
Re-Embroidering the Robe
Since the mid-nineteenth century, writers have retold old myths with fresh messages or created new ones for traditional truths. The eighteen essays in this book examine this transforming artistry in literature from 1850 to the present day.
Death Becomes Her
From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.
Reading America
This collection of essays offers a refreshing perspective on classic American novels. It explores familiar texts through unfamiliar lenses, shedding light on surprising aspects of works by authors from Toni Morrison to F. Scott Fitzgerald.
This book identifies a third problem of evil: epistemic evil. It arises when our judgments, through no corrigible defect, lead to undeserved human suffering. Tierno forcefully defends this problem, a groundbreaking challenge to theodicy.
Academic Apartheid
A silent majority speaks out. Academic Apartheid is a collection of poignant international essays uncovering the challenges of working on the borders of the ivory tower without job security, adequate wages, or health benefits.
Going Abroad
Explore what lies behind the travel, tourism and migration central to our globalized world. Embark on a journey of discovery through time and across continents to reflect on diverse visions of mobility, from emigration to theme parks.
Will explores polarities through a set of seventy mini-meditations on opposite states of moral and emotional life. He studies the operational energy at play, which is partly prayer or mantra and partly half-completed logical conundrum.
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